Quotes About Fragility

So you're saying that I could die at any moment!" "Yes. And this is different from your life yesterday in what way?" Umegat cocked his head in dry inquiry.

She took the story in like some strange, spiked gift, too fragile to drop, too painful to hold.

Ethan thought he understood how a propaganda-stuffed young soldier must feel the first time in combat, stumbling by some sudden chance over his enemy's human face. He had gloried for a red moment in his power to break her. Now he stood foolishly with the pieces in his hands. Not at all heroic.

These kids are like vessels you pour your love into. And some of those vessels are big and strong and happy to hold all the love you want to pour in, and others have cracks in them and the love isn't worth much because it all leaks out. I used to think love could save anything, but it can't if the vessel's cracked.

Perhaps we had at last reached that stage of intimacy that destroys intimacy.

I said nothing. If she wasn't careful, everyone would rush out of her life, life out of a burning building.

Losing confidence was more violent than losing love. Losing love was a slow dying, but losing confidence was a quick coup, a floor that opened right up and swallowed.

What is beautiful is seized, my mother said a final time, speaking of my father, whom she said had been destroyed by too many women, a heart picked over, scratched at, taken, lost. It came to me in bulky bandages, seeming much larger, much more than it really was.

a few sagging houses whose stones had lost their mortar and were held together only by gravity and habit

few sagging houses whose stones had lost their mortar and were held together only by gravity and habit

men must always remember, that civilization is a flimsy cloak, and just outside are hunger, thirst, and cold…waiting.

what splendid dreams young people build upon a word, and how bitter is the pain when the bright bubbles burst.

the big vases, that could not hide the vacancies her pretty

We are so brief. A one-day dandelion. A seedpod skittering across the ice. We are a feather falling from the wing of a bird. I don't know why it is given to us to be so mortal and to feel so much. It is a cruel trick, and glorious.

don't know why it is given to us to be so mortal and to feel so much. It is a cruel trick, and glorious.

Ma niente è solido e duraturo. Le nostre vite si reggono su fondamenta instabili. Non è necessario leggere i libri di storia per scoprirlo. Ti basta conoscere la storia della tua vita.

el cuerpo que nos enferma y que acaba por matarnos, ese maldito cuerpo traidor que de repente se queda cojo, y se terminaron para siempre las montañas; o que hace crecer insidiosamente, en el laborioso silencio de las células, un tumor maligno que te va a torturar antes de asesinarte; o que resbala y se rompe tan fácilmente

Era una pizca de persona, una mínima momia de boca desdentada y ojos encapotados por el velo lluvioso de la edad.

Hay belleza, no? Una belleza trémula, como una vieja mariposa batiendo lentamente unas alas que se deshacen

Esos vivos no eran más que proyectos de cadáveres.

Parece mentira que el fin de un espejismo amoroso que tal vez sólo ha durado unas semanas pueda sumirte en semejante infierno.

There was, Julia Prescott decided, only the finest razor-edge between depression and despair. Depression had been constant for weeks, familiar, creeping up on her like a prowler in tennis shoes. But despair was the dreaded spectre behind the closed door, springing forth just when you least expected it. ['Through the Eyes of Love']

She'd told Gustav never to cry. But it seemed that this rule didn't apply to her, because there were times, late at night, when Gustav would creep out of his room to find Emilie weeping over the pages of the Matzlingerzeitung. At these moments, her breath often smelled of aniseed and she would be clutching a glass clouded with yellow liquid, and Gustav felt afraid of these things - of her aniseed breath and the dirty glass and his mother's tears.

My free hand reached for something to hold on to, and closed on liquid nothing.